Sausage and Quinoa Stuffed Zucchini

Have I been MIA lately or what? Actually, no. Because MIA stands for “missing in action”, and my lack of presence is entirely unrelated to “action”.

It’s quite the opposite.

My brain is on summer vacation, people. Also, I’ve been working a lot - on my tan. It’s far too nice out to spend a whole lot of time sitting in front of this computer screen. Some other things that it’s apparently too nice out to do include vacuuming, laundry, dishes, and just general overall straightening up.

Whatever you do, DO NOT COME OVER. I am not prepared for company.

In the spirit of full disclosure, I would type up some recipes for you at night but I’ve developed a serious new addiction to the show Sons of Anarchy. I’m deep in the gun-slinging motorcycle gang drama right now. I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 54 episodes to catch up on before the new season comes out. I hardly have time to sleep at night!

So this recipe was developed more out of necessity than motivation. I was a bit overzealous in the zucchini planting this year. I went on vacation for two days and returned to some monster zucchinis larger than my forearm. Something needed to be cooked with them, and stat.

I posted a picture of my zucchini to Facebook and someone suggested I stuff it. Hmmmm, why not? I’ve made zucchini boat appetizers plenty of times with tiny, young zucchini. This would just be more of a zucchini ship.

I usually use bread crumbs in my little zucchini boats but I made this with quinoa to up the nutrition factor. Ideally I’d saute some eggplant and mushrooms to use in the filling but I had to throw in turkey sausage instead for the carnivore.

This was delicious and satisfying enough to be a meal on it’s own. I do find the giant zucchinis to be less flavorful so if you don’t have any monsters growing in your garden just use a few normal sized ones. You can use yellow squash, too, or even bell peppers or tomatoes if you have a garden full.